The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-03-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK

Another slight earthquake shock was
felt at Charleston on Saturday, which
lasted about five minutes. No damage
was done.
John Kavanaugh, an cmploye of the
Northern Pacific, was killed at James
town last Friday by being run over by
an engine.
Cardinal Jacobini died at Rome at
o'clock Saturday afternoon last. The
pope was present and extreme JUNCTION
was duly administered.
The river and harbor bill will appro-
pirate $15O.OOO for the cascade of the
Columbia river and 100000 for the
mouth Of the Columbia
On Tuesday the senate passed fifty
seven pension bills in fifty five minutes.
1t will probably take less time than that
for the president to veto them.
The house bill to annex the panhandle
Of Idaho to Washington territory was
called up by Platt, in the senate, Tuesday,
and passed with amendments.
The widow of Gen. John 4. Logan has
chosen sight in South Park, in Chicago,
as burial plot and as sight for the
monument, which Will be erected by the
state. :
James NJ Trottcr, colored, of Massa-
chusetts, has been appointed by the presi-
dent to be recorder of deeds for the Dis
trict Of Columbia, and the senate has re
fused to confirm him.
The joint assembly of West Virginia
adjourned last Saturday without electing
a United States senator. This leaves the
to the governor, who will
most likely appoint man with free trade
ideas.
Ex-Prcsident Andrew D. White, Of Cor
nell University, has telegraphed President
Cleveland declining to allow the use of
his name in connection with the forma-
ton Of commission under the interstate
commerce act.
John Roberts, a farmer living five miles
from Granite Falls. Mimi. lost his way in
a blizzard Friday night and was not found
until Sunday morning. Both arms and
feet were frozen, and death followed a
few hours later.
There are now more than five thousand
silk operators out Of work at Patterson, N.
j. The trouble started with eighteen
hundred Of the dyers, because their en-
ployers would not agree to the new sched-
ule Of wages and conditions.
Edward Hanlon and Jacob Gaudaur,
oarsmen, signed articles for single scull
race, three miles and turn, for $4,000 a
side and the championship, on May 30th
next, on water to be decided upon at the
time Of the final deposit, May I'd. They
deposited $1,000 each.
Geo. W. Voice and p. O'Neill, two po-
icemen Of East st. Louis who were re-
.ently arrested on the charge of having
ex- Mayor Bowman Of that city
IN November 20, 1886, have been in
licted by the grand jury Of Belleville,
illinois, for murder in the first degree
The president has approved the act to
indemnify certain subjects of the Chinese
empire for the loss sustained by the vio-
ence OF mob at Rock Springs, Wyom
ng Territory, in September, 1885. and an
ct in regard to public buildings at Den
er, Colorado: Huntsville, Alabama, and
Iouston, Texas.
Both houses Of the Austrian reichrath
nd Hungarian diet, by unanimous votes,
ave passed the extra credit asked by the
overnments for the equipment of the
rmy and the landwehr. Count Won
ichica, in debate at Pesth, declared that
Though he opposed the views of the gov
he willingly voted for the credit
, protect the thrones of the Fatherland.
Roxalance Druse, who murdered her hus-
and in December, 1884, at Herkimer, N.
:, and horribly mutilated his body by
utting it in many pieces, was hanged
,st Monday. She made a full confession
unday morning, detailing all Of the par
culars of the crime. Before going to
,e scaffold she made an affidavit declar- |
,g that her daughter Mary, now confined
i, the Onondaga penitentiary under life
sntence tor being implicated in the mur-
er. had nothing to do with the killing of
er father
William Z. English, son of Hon. VIM.
nglish. of Indiana, the democratic can
idate for vice e-president in 1880, was
rrested on board the steamer Etruria, just |
efore it was time for her to sail from
lew York to Europe, last Saturday. The
rider of arrest was sued out of the su-
RENE court by Mrs. Lucy A. Case, OF
for breach of promise and
eduction. English gave bail. but was
eleased too late to take the steamer for